Plastic pollution is one of the more pressing issues for conservationists and environmentalists alike. Researchers in Sweden harvested a byproduct of plastic disposal and used it to create a new ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert discarded plastic into gasoline and ...

It was an "almost accidental" discovery, the photocatalyst they invented turned out to be robust enough to withstand the ...

A study by Iowa State University researchers found that using industrial soap to clean plastic in recycling transferred ...

To determine the best way to recycle and reuse plastic, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) examined the benefits and trade-offs of current ...

A breakthrough method for chemically recycling acrylic—one of the world's most widely used plastics—has been developed by ...

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A research team has demonstrated that a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) is a stable and selective catalyst for breaking down polyester-based plastic into its component parts. Only ...